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70130
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Walter Mischel publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Walter Mischel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 205 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Walter Mischel D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Walter Mischel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville
  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 1982 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 1968 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Walter Mischel was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of psychology, with particular attention to social psychology, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology as subfields.

The scientific work of Walter Mischel covered several main topics including:

  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Throughout their career, Walter Mischel frequently collaborated with a group of co-authors including Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Yuichi Shoda, and Özlem Ayduk, each of whom partnered on multiple occasions.

Walter Mischel received several awards recognizing their contributions to the field of psychology:

  • APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association (1982)
  • William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA) (1989)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004)
  • Grawemeyer Award in Psychology, University of Louisville (2011)
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) (1968)

Best Publications

  • Personality and Assessment

    Walter Mischel

  • Delay of gratification in children

    Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda;Monica L. Rodriguez

  • Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality

    Walter Mischel

  • A Hot/Cool-System Analysis of Delay of Gratification: Dynamics of Willpower.

    Janet Metcalfe;Walter Mischel

  • A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing situations, dispositions, dynamics, and invariance in personality structure.

    Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda

  • Introduction to personality : toward an integrative science of the person

    Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Cognitive and attentional mechanisms in delay of gratification.

    Walter Mischel;Ebbe B. Ebbesen;Antonette Raskoff Zeiss

  • Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions.

    Yuichi Shoda;Walter Mischel;Philip K. Peake

  • Value from hedonic experience and engagement.

    E. Tory Higgins

  • Social competence and depression : The role of illusory self-perceptions

    Peter M. Lewinsohn;Walter Mischel;William Chaplin;Russell Barton

  • The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.

    Walter Mischel;Yuichi Shoda;Philip K. Peake

  • Prototypes in Person Perception1

    Nancy Cantor;Walter Mischel

  • Attention in delay of gratification.

    Walter Mischel;Ebbe B. Ebbesen

  • Toward an Integrative Science of the Person

    Walter Mischel

  • Processes in Delay of Gratification

    Walter Mischel

  • Behavioral and neural correlates of delay of gratification 40 years later

    B. J. Casey;Leah H. Somerville;Ian H. Gotlib;Ozlem Ayduk

  • Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain

    Ethan Kross;Marc G. Berman;Walter Mischel;Edward E. Smith

  • Regulating the Interpersonal Self: Strategic Self-Regulation for Coping With Rejection Sensitivity

    Ozlem Ayduk;Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton;Walter Mischel;Geraldine Downey

  • Traits as prototypes: Effects on recognition memory.

    Nancy Cantor;Walter Mischel

  • When asking "why" does not hurt. Distinguishing rumination from reflective processing of negative emotions

    Ethan Kross;Ozlem Ayduk;Walter Mischel

  • Beyond déjà vu in the search for cross-situational consistency.

    Walter Mischel;Philip K. Peake

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuichi Shoda
Yuichi Shoda University of Washington
Ozlem Ayduk
Ozlem Ayduk University of California, Berkeley
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton University of California, Berkeley
Ethan Kross
Ethan Kross University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
B. J. Casey
B. J. Casey Barnard College
Marc G. Berman
Marc G. Berman University of Chicago
David Laibson
David Laibson Harvard University
J. Lawrence Aber
J. Lawrence Aber New York University
Kevin N. Ochsner
Kevin N. Ochsner Columbia University
Daniel J. Benjamin
Daniel J. Benjamin University of California, Los Angeles

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